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The article focuses on the presents position of sociology in Germany. Lectures on sociology are now offered in almost all German universities. Sociological institutes and seminars, especially that in Cologne, Germany have been founded. Numerous professors and lecturers, political economists, philosophers, psychologists, jurists, historians, have a teaching commission for sociology, in other words the duty, along with their principal specialty, to cultivate sociology also as a specialty. Without doubt there would be in most of the universities, technical schools, and commercial colleges, already professors at hand who could devote their entire work to sociology, if it were not for the fact that in the impoverished land the cultural interests must be subordinated. The new interest will also be shown through the sociological periodicals. The basis of the change lies in the experiences which the German people endured during the First World War and the post-War years. One cannot understand the German mentality, and the change in this mentality, unless he comprehends the power of the German "State-Thought."